I Was Born on Third Base

On the dangers of conflating luck with talent | Continue reading


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Business Books of 2019 (According to Every Other Best-of-2019 List)

11,000 business books are published every year. Here are the three you need to crush 2020. | Continue reading


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Why Early Startups Need to Be Quick to Fire

Sometimes founders start off with great friends who make lousy employees | Continue reading


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Why So Many Entrepreneurs Hoard Secret Stashes of Domain Names

Dreaming up a new business starts with a domain name, and some entrepreneurs have hundreds of them | Continue reading


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I Raised My $11.5M Venture Capital Fund

Your richest contacts are not necessarily your biggest checks | Continue reading


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A cynic’s guide to getting the most out of business books

How to get the most out of CEO biographies and business tomes — and not just the lessons they want to teach you | Continue reading


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The Away Luggage Saga Shows Venture Capital Needs a Reality Check

Silicon Valley is indeed changing the world, and not always for the better | Continue reading


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Two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China’s biggest bank robbery

Lottery-crazed clerks Ren Xiaofeng and Ma Xiangjing robbed the Agricultural Bank of China in Handan, Hebei province of over US$ 6 million. | Continue reading


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Amazon, Obvious invest in Yves Behar-designed prefab home startup

Designers have long tried and failed to take modular mainstream. Can this Amazon-backed entrepreneur make prefab more than just a fad? | Continue reading


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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Technical Debt

Technical debt sounds scary, but it and its cousin, organizational debt, can be tools for leverage on your balance sheet, if you know how… | Continue reading


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Here’s Who Will Win (and Lose) the Streaming Wars

Who says capitalism isn’t working? | Continue reading


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Today’s Most Valuable Tech Companies Are Time Machines

Google and Netflix add years to your life — for a price | Continue reading


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15k WeWork employees wonder about layoffs and underwater equity

As layoffs begin, workers band together to salvage what they can — and reflect on the warning signs they wish, in retrospect, they had… | Continue reading


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Vice Ventures is investing in taboo industries that other funds won’t touch

Vice Ventures is investing in taboo industries that other funds won’t touch — even if they want to | Continue reading


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The Economist Who Wants to Ditch Math

Robert Shiller argues that gossip, half-baked philosophy, and fake news drive economics — not numbers. His peers aren’t thrilled. | Continue reading


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Content Marketing for Non-Hucksters

If the term content marketing upsets you, feel free to replace it with a synonym like 🤮 | Continue reading


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A Former Netflix VP on 10 Necessary Habits for Making Tough Decisions

Have a strategy that answers the question, “How will your product delight customers in hard-to-copy, margin-enhancing ways?” | Continue reading


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How to Delegate Work So It Gets Done

If you’ve ever found it difficult to get the results you want from other people, try this simple management technique | Continue reading


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What Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?

Peter Rahal started RxBar out of his mom’s kitchen — then sold it for $600 million. Inside the entrepreneurial fantasy | Continue reading


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How SoftBank and WeWork Played Silicon Valley and Wall Street

The day of Daredevil founders and investors is done | Continue reading


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Why Every CEO Needs to Think Like a Hacker, Stalker, or White Nationalist

Maybe sometimes the problem is that digital design isn’t cynical enough. | Continue reading


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